Digitonal

{{Short description|British musical duo}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Digitonal | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | landscape =  | alias = | origin = London, UK | genre = Electronica | years_active = {{start date|1998}}–2023 | label = Cactus Island Recordings, Dustpunk Records, Just Music, Seed Records, Toytronic | website = {{URL|http://www.digitonal.com/}} | current_members = Andy Dobson, Dom Graveson | past_members = Samy Bishai, Kat Arney, Jo Quail }}

'''Digitonal''' is a British electronica music project led by clarinettist and composer Andy Dobson, with collaborations from violinist Samy Bishai, producer Dom Graveson, harpist Kat Arney and cellist Jo Quail. It formed in London in the late 1990s.<ref name="Digitonal"> {{cite web | url = http://www.digitonal.com/ | title = Digitonal - | publisher = Digitonal | date = | accessdate = 2011-01-15 }}</ref>

Reviewing their 2010 retrospective album ''Be Still My Bleeping Heart'', BBC's Mike Diver agrees with the band's description of their own style as "neo classical ambient electronica", adding that, although at times predictable, their music is "extremely accessible, and incredibly pretty", "designed primarily to calm, despite occasionally boisterous beat-work."<ref name="BBC"> {{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/bfpn | author = Mike Diver | title = Digitonal - Be Still My Bleeping Heart Review | publisher = BBC | date = 2010-07-22 | accessdate = 2011-01-15 | location = London }}</ref> The Skinny described the duo's sound as akin to Philip Glass and The Orb.<ref>[http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/99611-digitonal-be-still-my-bleeping-heart Review of ''Be Still My Bleeping Heart''], The Skinny, June 25, 2010.</ref>

Ben Weisz from musicOMH summarises Digitonal's work by saying that "while the rest of the world spent the noughties lurching from one musical fad to the next, Digitonal quietly created some of the most beautifully-constructed art of the decade.<ref name="musicOMH"> {{cite news |url = http://www.musicomh.com/albums/digitonal-2_0710.htm |author = Ben Weisz |title = Digitonal - Be Still My Bleeping Heart |publisher = musicOMH |year = 2010 |accessdate = 2011-01-15 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100924095944/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/digitonal-2_0710.htm |archivedate = 2010-09-24 }}</ref> Alex Macpherson, from The Guardian, describes their music as "suited to accompanying a book, a dinner or a hangover [...] Very much atmosphere over action, but not necessarily a bad thing."<ref name="Guardian"> {{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/01/electronicmusic1 | author = Alex Macpherson | title = Electronic review: Digitonal, Save Your Light For Darker Days | publisher = Guardian News and Media | date = 2008-08-01 | accessdate = 2011-01-15 }}</ref>

The group announced an indefinite hiatus on their website in 2023.

== Discography == * ''23 Things Fall Apart'' (2002) <ref>[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Digitonal Digitonal discography] on Discogs</ref> * ''The Centre Cannot Hold'' EP (2004) * ''Live At The Oxygen Bar'' (2005) * ''Save Your Light For Darker Days'' (2008) * ''Be Still My Bleeping Heart'' (2010) * ''Beautiful Broken'' (2015) * ''Set The Weather Fair'' (2020) * ''Performance'' (2025)

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{{Authority control}} Category:Electronica music groups Category:British electronic music groups